The Index Podcast
@theindexshow
Tune in each week to hear from leading entrepreneurs, builders, and investors shaping the future of AI & Web3. Hosted by @afkehaya of @corbitsdev.
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We reached over 500,000 people in the last 90 days from @theindexshow and have a waitlist of guests 70 companies deep. Pretty incredible what can happen if you just stay consistent over 5 years.
Chris Cummings still makes his design team sketch by hand.
The founder of Iconic on what AI could do to creativity, how 3D worlds in the browser bring museums to life, and why cities need better ways to show what they're building.
On The Index with @afkehaya
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James Au says shopping has gotten so normal it's almost boring.
The founder of @watchdotfun on gamified shopping, luxury watches on Solana, and what happens when streamers open boxes for their audience.
@watch_emperor on The Index with @SteveCleanBrook
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New pod: Alexander Grey on The Index Podcast.
One SOL deposit that earns whether the market goes up or down. On-chain policies that block anything outside the strategy.
Near the end: who we're building for, and why it's not degens.
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Most DeFi users ride the same bus. Alexander Grey wants to give you your own limousine.
The founder of @ThalerFinance on non-custodial vaults, what keeps him up at night, and why DeFi still isn't simple enough for normies.
Hosted by @SteveCleanBrook 🚌
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Was great catching up with @SteveCleanBrook who has officially been the first person to interview the entire Spout team!
Marc Ryan, CEO of Spout Finance, says most tokenized stocks are wrappers. That means you're trusting more parties than you think.
@0xmryan of @SpoutFi on The Index with @SteveCleanBrook 🔍
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Ryan Carson taught a million people to code at Treehouse. Now he runs an AI company alone, with a fleet of agents.
His take: all technology is almost going to be worth zero. What's left is product market fit and distribution.
@ryancarson on The Index with @afkehaya 🧠
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Hank Leber says 97% of comments on brand pages never get a reply.
His fix: an AI that hides the trolls without them knowing, answers in the brand's voice, and turns comments into insights.
@stanify_ai on The Index with @afkehaya
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Evan Schnidman, head of Fidelity Labs, believes the hardest problem in technology today isn't intelligence, it's identity.
He joins the show to explain why.
Hosted by @afkehaya 🎙️
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Yahia Bakour kept getting angry emails from big companies. He treated them as a signal, killed his other projects, and went all in.
A month ago: 200 customers. Today: 400.
@mynameisyahia of @getcontextdev on The Index with @afkehaya 🔥
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The author of Clean Code says the worst thing you can do with AI-written code is read it.
@unclebobmartin on why buying software is fading, why he calls Swarmforge a failed experiment, and why programmer demand will still go through the roof.
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Chris Perkins thinks the quantum computing threat to crypto is actually its biggest tailwind.
@perkinscr97, head of Franklin Crypto at @FTDA_US, joins the show to explain why.
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The Cold Card hack drained $100 million. So who's actually liable, the wallet maker or you?
@ryonnixon, Solana's first outside counsel, on hacked wallets, fake offshore directors, and why AI is quietly wrecking founders' judgment.
Hosted by @SteveCleanBrook
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Ben Ungvari isn't calling it disruption, he's calling it a takeover.
"We're going to flip Wall Street," says the CMO of @Raydium. @ben_ungvari joins the show to explain how.
Hosted by @SteveCleanBrook 🎙️
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Jake Brukhman predicts we'll train a 400 to 500 billion parameter AI model on a decentralized network within six to nine months, with no data center required.
@jbrukh, founder and CEO of @coinfund, joins the show.
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Richard King is building a Solana options protocol that pays you upfront in cash, whether or not your position ever triggers, with none of the intimidating Greeks.
@richardkingxyz of @leaps_finance joins the show.
Hosted by @SteveCleanBrook 🎙️
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Your bank keeps most of the yield on your deposits and hands you scraps once a month.
@rmcuming, CEO of @ground_onchain, joins the show to explain why he's building the API bringing on-chain yield to neobanks.
Hosted by @afkehaya 🎙️
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🚀 He almost got scammed by a fake podcast producer minutes before this interview. @mvanhorn (Lyft co-founder, now building @lyft, @slashlast30days) sits down with @afkehaya on The Index to talk AI psychosis, coding agents that never sleep, and the skill that hit a million views.
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Visa and Mastercard are quietly rebuilding their plumbing around stablecoins. @rynesaxe, co-founder & CEO of @eco, explains what that signals for Solana and the future of money. New episode with @NickyScanz is live. 🎙️
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